Iman N. Milner

Iman N. Milner is an award-winning actress and writer from Detroit, MI. Her career began at the age of 8 with a role in famed playwright, Ron Milner's, acclaimed play, Urban Transitions: Loose Blossoms. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actors Training Program where Iman spent a year training in London. In 2010, Iman became the owner and CEO of EDGE Magazine, a modern online publication that sought to inspire millennials through stories of their peers success. In the four years of EDGE’s existence, Iman wrote cover articles on celebrities like Issa Rae, Teyana Taylor, Michael B. Jordan, Jhene Aiko and countless others.The publication was able to collaborate with brands ranging from VH1 to ADIDAS.

In 2013, Iman began to focus more of her attention back into her first love: acting. Her credits include House of Lies, Awkward Black Girl, Chef Julian, Netflix's Making A Cheater Campaign and her film, Love Escapes Us, which earned Iman the ESSENCE Magazine Black Women In Hollywood Discovery Award in 2015 presented by Gina Prince Bythewood. Her film made its TV debut in 2016 on Magic Johnson’s Aspire network and is now streaming worldwide on KweliTV. Combining her love for storytelling with her writing abilities, Iman wrote her first book, “on breakups and beginnings”, in 2016. Released independently, the book spent weeks in the top three of Amazon’s best-selling African American poetry list and has sold over 2,000 copies. Her followup offering, “on becoming”, hits Amazon and online retailers on February 14, 2019.